Here we go. Â Installment #2 of ‘Fill In The Book’
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Here we go. Â Installment #2 of ‘Fill In The Book’
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That second panel is the camping trip/rock swap/show I went to in Buena Vista CO one year. When I leveled the scrabble-garbage parking lot for the football field that we were camping in, it caused it to fill in in the few hours we went to the hot springs. The airmattress was floating freely in the middle of the tent. It was wet all night too. Surplus army blankets (one source says ‘best birth control ever invented’) saved my life. That brought back many soggy memories Greg, thanks. I think.
For me, that comic is a combo of two trips- one was a kayaking/camping trip in Colorado where I woke up sorta floating. I stuffed everything that shouldn’t get wet into a waterproof barrel and went back to sleep. Cowboy campin’. Yay.
The other inspiration was a kayaking trip to West Virginia, when we returned after a long day to discover one of the guy’s tents was soaking wet and in total disarray. The wind had picked it up during the day and tumbled it to the nearby lake. Someone had seen it happen, ran down, got the tent, dragged it back and staked it in place (which the owner should have done) Very nice of them.
Greg – Spelling error? Bottom panel “T ROUGH”.
Dammit. There WAS a spelling error. Now, it’s a Wite-Out Error.
Does it occur to anyone else that ‘Wite-Out’ is, itself, a spelling mistake? At the Wite-Out factory, do they think that’s hilarious, or what?
I think they drink themselves silly, talking about it during lunch breaks.
A secretary came up with it, tired of the old fashioned way of using a typing eraser and probably putting a hole in the paper to erase the mis-type. I learned to type in the era between metal rimmed bakelite keys and selectric I’s (the ball). Erasing with that weird rough blue bristle ended pencil eraser (they looked like a pencil, usually white with the wide ‘lead’ being eraser. What a mess. That secretary retired very rich from her invention.
Making gains? You’d BETTER be feeling pain…
I claim this comic in the name of clan. Anyway that’s obviously me. 🙂
My clan, I mean.
Hail, The Clan!
HAIL!
That second one reminds me of the last time my wife went tent camping with me, except we did have water come in the top. Those newer tents with their no-see-um tops and undersized rain flies just didn’t stop the sideways rain from coming in. We had about 3″ of water in the tent by morning and all of our cooking gear was soaked.
My last camping trip was on the Homer Spit. I swear, at 2 a.m., it SOUNDED like the water was coming in, even though we’d put the tent higher than the high-tide debris line. As long as you don’t worry about drowning in your sleep, the sound of the tide all around you is pretty relaxing.
maybe it’s his motivational technique…i can SINCERELY say i saw worse.
You can not outrun a bee or hornet. Neither will top gear on your tractor, even going downhill. Bees only get you once, a hornet can nail you multiple times!
You can MAYBE outrun mosquitos. They tend to have your home address though. (sitting with knees up one night at dark in a campground in Grand Marais, and reeking from a half ounce of 95% DEET and having a brown pulsating swarm around me, and not daring to move. Spouse had stepped off and said he couldn’t understand why I was blurred out, and stayed away until cold drove them away….)